Zoe! [SeesPete,*who has set his pail down*L. C.up stage, and goes to sleep on it.] [To the men.] I daren't move fear to spile myself. So it went, till one day the judge found the tap wouldn't run. M'Closky. the bags are mine---now for it!---[Opens mail-bags.] [Calls off.] In cash? Here then, I'll put back these Peytons in Terrebonne, and they shall know you done it; yes, they'll have you to thank for saving them from ruin. Point. Eleven hundred---going---going---sold! Zoe, they shall not take you from us while I live. O, get out. D'ye feel it? It ain't our sile, I believe, rightly; but Nature has said that where the white man sets his foot, the red man and the black man shall up sticks and stand around. O, law, sir, dat debil Closky, he tore hisself from de gen'lam, knock me down, take my light, and trows it on de turpentine barrels, and de shed's all afire! Dido. [Who has been looking about the camera.] twit him on his silence and abstraction---I'm sure it's plain enough, for he has not spoken two words to me all the day; then joke round the subject, and at last speak out. Well, he gone dar hisself; why, I tink so---'cause we missed Paul for some days, but nebber tout nothin' till one night dat Injiun Wahnotee suddenly stood right dar 'mongst us---was in his war paint, and mighty cold and grave---he sit down by de fire. Fellow-citizens, you are convened and assembled here under a higher power than the law. Frank Capra, If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development. [Outside,R.U.E.] Dis way---dis way. It carried that easy on mortgage. Hee! The apparatus can't mistake. [Aside.] I love one who is here, and he loves me---George. Why don't you speak, sir? [Weeping.] Ah! I will be thirty years old again in thirty seconds. George. He's yours, Captain Ratts, Magnolia steamer. Zoe. I'd cut my throat---or yours---yours I'd prefer. Dat's what her soul's gwine to do. ], Paul. . No! Well---I didn't mean to kill him, did I? George. Five hundred bid---it's a good price. Seize him, then! Poor little Paul! I saw the mail-bags lying in the shed this morning. Ratts. George. I feel so big with joy, creation ain't wide enough to hold me. M'Closky hates Scudder in return, especially because they both love Zoe, Mr. Peyton's "octoroon" daughter, Zoe. With Dora's wealth, he explains, Terrebonne will not be sold and the slaves will not have to be separated. Zoe. [Aside to Zoe.] Mrs. Pey. [Retires.]. See also Trivia | Goofs | Crazy Credits | Alternate Versions | Connections | Soundtracks Getting Started | Contributor Zone Yes; I kept the letters, and squandered the money. What's here? Zoe. [They get on table.]. Ratts. Pete. For what I have done, let me be tried. Pete. I won't hear a word! Why, because I love Zoe, too, and I couldn't take that young feller from her; and she's jist living on the sight of him, as I saw her do; and they so happy in spite of this yer misery around them, and they reproachin' themselves with not feeling as they ought. E.---Wahnotefollows him.---Screams outside. look here, these Peytons are bust; cut 'em; I am rich, jine me; I'll set you up grand, and we'll give these first families here our dust, until you'll see their white skins shrivel up with hate and rage; what d'ye say? You're bidding to separate them, Judge. [Knocks.] *EnterPete, Pointdexter, Jackson, Lafouche,and*Caillou,R.U.E. Pete. If Omenee remain, Wahnotee will die in Terrebonne. Hi! It's soooo dark. ExitScudderandPete,R.1. [Knocks.] [Aside.] Mrs. P.George, you are incorrigible. Be the first to contribute! Since this letter would allow Mrs. Peyton to avoid selling Terrebonne, McClosky kills Paul and takes the letter. Why don't he return to his nation out West? Dat's right, missus! Scene.---The Wharf, The Steamer "Magnolia" alongside,L.;a bluff rock,R.U.E. Ratts*discovered, superintending the loading of ship. he tinks it's a gun. I shall knock it down to the Squire---going---gone---for one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Hark! Zoe. Ratts. [*Seizes whip, and holds*Paul. Paul. The house of Mason Brothers, of Liverpool, failed some twenty years ago in my husband's debt. I will take the best room in the Grand Central or the Orndorff Hotel. EnterScudder, George, Ratts, Caillou, Pete, Grace, Minnie,and all theNegroes. Paul. Hello! Sunny. I say, Zoe, do you hear that? No---no. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory. George. give me the rest that no master but One can disturb---the sleep from which I shall awake free! You thought you had cornered me, did ye? He can fight though he's a painter; claws all over. My dear mother---Mr. Scudder---you teach me what I ought to do; if Miss Sunnyside will accept me as I am, Terrebonne shall be saved; I will sell myself, but the slaves shall be protected. he's allers in for it. Who is it? Dido. I tell ye dar's somebody in dar. George, you know not what you say. You'll find him scenting round the rum store, hitched up by the nose. Cum yer now---stand round, cause I've got to talk to you darkies---keep dem chil'n quiet---don't make no noise, de missus up dar har us. The Wharf---goods, boxes, and bales scattered about---a camera on stand, R. Scudder, R., Dora, L., George*andPauldiscovered;Dorabeing photographed byScudder,who is arranging photographic apparatus,GeorgeandPaullooking on at back.*. [Raises hand to back of his neck.] Now, gentlemen, I'm proud to submit to you the finest lot of field hands and house servants that was ever offered for competition; they speak for themselves, and do credit to their owners.---[Reads.] Now's your time, sar. [Zoe*helps her. He looked in to see what stopped it, and pulled out a big mortgage. Dora! [Shouts heard,R.]. 49, Paul, a quadroon boy, aged thirteen. Scud. George. Zoe. I will! Why, Dora, what's the matter? All night, as I fled through the cane-brake, I heard footsteps behind me. Scud. You are a white man; you'll not leave one of your own blood to be butchered by the red-skin? [Re-enters from boat.] Dora. New York, NY, Ages 12-17: Camp Broadway Ensemble @ Carnegie Hall Consarn those Liverpool English fellers, why couldn't they send something by the last mail? Zoe, will you remain here? McClosky, however, outbids her for Zoe; George is restrained from attacking him by his friends. I'll trouble you for that piece of baccy, Judge---thank you---so, gentlemen, as life is short, we'll start right off. Scud. In comparison, a quadroon would have one quarter African ancestry and a mulatto for the most part has historically implied half African ancestry. [ToMrs. I couldn't bear to see him put to work. Wahnotee tracks him down and confronts him; in the ensuing struggle, Wahnotee kills McClosky. Two hundred and forty-nine times! Top, you varmin! [Knocks.] A view of the Plantation Terrebonne, in Louisiana.---A branch of the Mississippi is seen winding through the Estate.---A low built, but extensive Planter's Dwelling, surrounded with a veranda, and raised a few feet from the ground, occupies theL. Scud. Wahnotee? Are they? It was that rascal M'Closky---but he got rats, I avow---he killed the boy, Paul, to rob this letter from the mail-bags---the letter from Liverpool you know---he sot fire to the shed---that was how the steamboat got burned up. When I travelled round with this machine, the homely folks used to sing out, "Hillo, mister, this ain't like me!" there it comes---it comes---don't you hear a footstep on the dry leaves? But the creditors will not claim the gal? [Stands with his hand extended towards the house, and tableau.]. Mrs. Peyton, George Peyton, Terrebonne is yours. Sunny. here's Mas'r Sunnyside, and Missey Dora, jist drov up. darn his carcass! It will cost me all I'm worth. Is this a dream---for my brain reels with the blow? Where am I to get it? Jackson. Scud. Hold on, Jacob, I'm coming to that---I tell ye, I'm such a fool---I can't bear the feeling, it keeps at me like a skin complaint, and if this family is sold up---. For a year or two all went fine. Don't say that, ma'am; don't say that to a man that loves another gal. Adam had a job, a place to live, and food that he could provide for his woman. Yes, I love you---I did not know it until your words showed me what has been in my heart; each of them awoke a new sense, and now I know how unhappy---how very unhappy I am. We are catching fire forward; quick, set free from the shore. Dora. [Advances.] What court of law would receive such evidence? Go and try it, if you've a mind to. [Astonished.] [*To*Ratts.] Zoe, you are suffering---your lips are white---your cheeks are flushed. The term sensation drama caught on when Boucicault's The Colleen Bawn, adapted from Gerald Grifn's novel The Collegians, became a hit in 1860. [During the dialogueWahnoteehas takenGeorge'sgun. There is a gulf between us, as wide as your love, as deep as my despair; but, O, tell me, say you will pity me! Scud. Hello, Pete, I never heard of that affair. Irish - Dramatist December 26, 1822 - September 18, 1890. No, I hesitated because an attachment I had formed before I had the pleasure of seeing you had not altogether died out. Hole yer tongue, Dido. Where's that man from Mobile that wanted to give one hundred and eighty thousand? I shan't interfere. Ratts. Come, the hour is past. Scud. I deserve to be a nigger this day---I feel like one, inside. Yonder the boy still lurks with those mail-bags; the devil still keeps him here to tempt me, darn his yellow skin. D'ye hear that, Jacob? Only 10 percent engaged in combat; the American elephant, pursuing the Vietnamese grasshopper, was extraordinarily heavy with logistical support. I don't tink you will any more, but dis here will; 'cause de family spile Dido, dey has. here are marks of blood---look thar, red-skin, what's that? M'Closky. Hold on now! This is folly, Dora. [Sits down.] George. Excuse me, I'll light a cigar. Grace. Mrs. P.[L. C.] My nephew is not acquainted with our customs in Louisiana, but he will soon understand. If I was to try, I'd bust. 2, the yellow girl Grace, with two children---Saul, aged four, and Victoria five." Look there, jurymen. and will despise me, spurn me, loathe me, when he learns who, what, he has so loved.---[Aloud.] Yes, missus. He will love you---he must. Each word you utter makes my love sink deeper into my heart. Zoe. The word Octoroon signifies "one-eighth blood" or the child of a Quadroon by a white. Thib. No, I'm the skurriest crittur at a fight you ever see; my legs have been too well brought up to stand and see my body abused; I take good care of myself, I can tell you. Pete. New York, NY, Linda Ray Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes & Sayings. ya! Scud. Zoe. [*Exit*Dora,L.U.E.] What on earth does that child mean or want? Ain't you took them bags to the house yet? The Octoroon: The Story of the Turpentine Forest (1909) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. Dat's de laziest nigger on dis yere property. Farewell, Dora. she would revolt from it, as all but you would; and if I consented to hear the cries of my heart, if I did not crush out my infant love, what would she say to the poor girl on whom she had bestowed so much? Dido. Mrs. P.My dear George, you are left in your uncle's will heir to this estate. George, do you see that hand you hold? I know then that the boy was killed with that tomahawk---the red-skin owns it---the signs of violence are all round the shed---this apparatus smashed---ain't it plain that in a drunken fit he slew the boy, and when sober concealed the body yonder? You made her life too happy, and now these tears will be. Then buy the hands along with the property. top till I get enough of you in one place! Top, sar! Guess they nebber was born---dem tings! George. Death was there beside me, and I dared not take it. 'An Octoroon' was written over about three years but premiered in 2014. When she goes along, she just leaves a streak of love behind her. My father gives me freedom---at least he thought so. M'Closky. As I swam down, I thought I heard something in the water, as if pursuing me---one of them darned alligators, I suppose---they swarm hereabout---may they crunch every limb of ye! 'Tain't you he has injured, 'tis the white man, whose laws he has offended. Hello! M'Closky. Then, as I knelt there, weeping for courage, a snake rattled beside me. The men leave to fetch the authorities, but McClosky escapes. [Raising his voice.] Scud. [*Aside to*Mrs. Would you rob me first, and murder me afterwards? Silence in the court; stand back, let the gentlemen of the jury retire, consult, and return their verdict. Sunny. Dora. Ten miles we've had to walk, because some blamed varmin onhitched our dug-out. Dora. Paul. M'Closky. for, darn me, if I can find out. Do not weep, George. George. Then I will go to a parlor house and have them top up a bathtub with French champagne and I will strip and dive into it with a bare-assed blonde and a redhead and an octoroon and the four of us will get completely presoginated and laugh and let long bubbly farts at hell and baptize each other in the name of the Trick, the Prick, and the Piper-Heidsick. Sunny. Scud. [Aside.] The Octoroons have no apparent trace of the Negro in their appearance but still are subject to the legal disabilities which attach them to the condition of blacks. [Shows plate. Hark! But what do we pay for that possession? [Draws pistol---M'Closky*rushes on and falls atScudder'sfeet.*]. ], George. [Takes out his knife. Work, Zoe, is the salt that gives savor to life. O, my---my heart! O, let all go, but save them! [*Exit*Mrs. Peyton*and*George,L.U.E.] A slave! See here, you imps; if I catch you, and your red skin yonder, gunning in my swamps, I'll give you rats, mind; them vagabonds, when the game's about, shoot my pigs. The more bidders, the better for you. Excuse me; one of the principal mortgagees has made the demand. Is your heart free? my dear, dear father! Scud. Yah! [Cry of "fire" heard---Engine bells heard---steam whistle noise.]. What's here---judgments? [Wahnotee*runs on, pulls down apron---seesPaul,lying on ground--- speaks to him---thinks he's shamming sleep---gesticulates and jabbers--- goes to him---moves him with feet, then kneels down to rouse him---to his horror finds him dead---expresses great grief---raises his eyes--- they fall upon the camera---rises with savage growl, seizes tomahawk and smashes camera to pieces, then goes toPaul---expresses grief, sorrow, and fondness, and takes him in his arms to carry him away.--- Tableau.*]. Don't b'lieve it, Mas'r George,---no. I only come back to find Wahnotee; whar is dat ign'ant Ingiun? Guess that you didn't leave anything female in Europe that can lift an eyelash beside that gal. Poor fellow, he has lost all. Where did she live and what sort of life did she lead? The Oxford English Dictionary cites The Octoroon with the earliest record of the word "mashup" with the quote: "He don't understand; he speaks a mash up of Indian, French, and Mexican." M'Closky. Zoe. Mrs. P.I fear that the property is so involved that the strictest economy will scarcely recover it. *EnterMrs. PeytonandScudder, M'Closkyand*Pointdexter,R. M'Closky. Down with him! So we believe; and so mad are the folks around, if they catch the red-skin they'll lynch him sure. Mrs. P.I cannot find the entry in my husband's accounts; but you, Mr. M'Closky, can doubtless detect it. I sat outside his door all night---I heard his sighs---his agony---torn from him by my coming fate; and he said, "I'd rather see her dead than his!". I hope we don't intrude on the family. Dora. E.---Wahnoteefaces him.---Fight---buss. M'Closky. [Aside.] What, Mr. Ratts, are you going to invest in swamps? [Laughs.]. Pete, as you came here, did you pass Paul and the Indian with the letter-bags? Mrs. Pey. Point. Franco Harris, You have to let it go. whew! Zoe. It concerns the residents of a Louisiana plantation called Terrebonne, and sparked debates about the abolition of slavery and the role of theatre in politics. She nebber was 'worth much 'a dat nigger. Judy Collins, You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music." Look here; I can't stand that gal! is dat him creeping dar? Of course not, you little fool; no one ever made love to you, and you can't understand; I mean, that George knows I am an heiress; my fortune would release this estate from debt. Be the first to contribute! Lafouche. Dora. Boucicault's manuscript actually reads "Indian, French and 'Merican." and my master---O! "No, ma'am, the truth seldom is.". But for Heaven's sake go---here comes the crowd. Letters! M'Closky. blaze away! I don't think you capable of anything else than---. To "Mrs. Peyton, Terrebonne, Louisiana, United States." Never, aunt! Scud. Lafouche. [Sits. I listen dar jess now---dar was ole lady cryin'---Mas'r George---ah! Sorry I can't return the compliment. Now, it ain't no use trying to get mad, Mas'r Scudder. [*Hands papers to*Mrs. What? Twelve thousand. Go on, Colonel. Scud. See Injiun; look dar [shows him plate], see dat innocent: look, dar's de murderer of poor Paul. Dora. I will, quicker than lightning. George offers to take her to a different country, but Zoe insists that she stay to help Terrebonne; Scudder then appears and suggests that George marry Dora. Mrs. P.But it may be years yet before it will be paid off, if ever. George. Hold on a bit. Scud. O, aunt! The first lot on here is the estate in block, with its sugar-houses, stock, machines, implements, good dwelling-houses and furniture. if you cannot be mine, O, let me not blush when I think of you. Paul. It's a shame to allow that young cub to run over the Swamps and woods, hunting and fishing his life away instead of hoeing cane. Dido. Point. George. Pete. Scud. ", Zoe. | Sitemap |. Dido. Look there. Scud. Pete. He's too fond of thieving and whiskey. Zoe. Yes, Mas'r George, dey was born here; and old Pete is fonder on 'em dan he is of his fiddle on a Sunday. I'd be darned glad if somebody would tear my past life away from me. [Puts his head under the darkening apron.] *, M'Olosky. you bomn'ble fry---git out---a gen'leman can't pass for you. I am his love---he loves an Octoroon. Grace. M'Closky. Pete. No, no! [Rising.] Dora. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. Mrs. P.[R.] No, George; your uncle said to me with his dying breath, "Nellie, never leave Terrebonne," and I never will leave it, till the law compels me. Zoe, you are pale. Mrs. P.I expect an important letter from Liverpool; away with you, Paul; bring the mail-bags here. Bah! So I came here to you; to you, my own dear nurse; to you, who so often hushed me to sleep when I was a child; who dried my eyes and put your little Zoe to rest. ], Pete. [Reads.] [Wahnotee*raises apron and runs off,*L.U.E.Paul*sits for his picture---M'Closkyappears from*R.U.E.]. Traduced! She's won this race agin the white, anyhow; it's too late now to start her pedigree. Mr. Scudder, good morning. why, clar out! Darn his copper carcass, I've got a set of Irish deck-hands aboard that just loved that child; and after I tell them this, let them get a sight of the red-skin, I believe they would eat him, tomahawk and all. O, none for me; I never eat. Scud. Excuse me ladies. The buyers gather to take away the slaves they have purchased on a steamship. The Octoroon Important Quotes 1. M'Closky. No. You ign'ant Injiun, it can't hurt you! M'Closky. This is your own house; we are under your uncle's roof; recollect yourself. [Exit, with a low, wailing, suffocating cry,L.U.E. *EnterM'Closky, Lafouche, Jackson, Sunnyslde,and*Pointdexter,R.U.E. Point. The play was adapted by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins as An Octoroon in 2014. Beat that any of ye. Grace. Enjoy the best Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Quotes at BrainyQuote. Mrs. P.Ah! In some form, human, or wild beast, or ghost, it has tracked me through the night. Don't you know that she is the natural daughter of the judge, your uncle, and that old lady thar just adored anything her husband cared for; and this girl, that another woman would a hated, she loves as if she'd been her own child. Point. The Octoroon or The Lily of Louisiana is a dark tale of crime, race and slavery. M'Closky. Well, that has come out clear, ain't it? George. Stop, Zoe; come here! Scud. That's a challenge to begin a description of my feminine adventures. Zoe. [Looks off.] Zoe, you have suspected the feeling that now commands an utterance---you have seen that I love you. Lafouche. [*Goes*L.] Paul reste el! Point. The Judge is a little deaf. George, leave me! We tought dat de niggers would belong to de ole missus, and if she lost Terrebonne, we must live dere allers, and we would hire out, and bring our wages to ole Missus Peyton. Point. Come, Miss Dora, let me offer you my arm. The judge didn't understand accounts---the overseer did. Extremely popular, the play was kept running continuously for years by seven road companies. Wahnotee. Pete. Here we are on the selvage of civilization. Boucicault adapted the play from the novel The Quadroon by Thomas Mayne Reid (1856). Paul. My love? "No. Zoe. Ratts. *EnterPete, Dido, Solon, Minnie,and*Grace. [Sighing.] With your New England hypocrisy, you would persuade yourself it was this family alone you cared for; it ain't---you know it ain't---'tis the "Octoroon;" and you love her as I do; and you hate me because I'm your rival---that's where the tears come from, Salem Scudder, if you ever shed any---that's where the shoe pinches. Paul has promised me a bear and a deer or two. Pete. stan' round thar! 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